Radio Liberty frequency update

All times UTC

USA (non)

Radio Liberty
Georgian - resumed on shortwave
0500-0600 on 9725 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg
11960 LAM 100 kW / 088 deg
17770 IRA 250 kW / 322 deg
1130-1145*on 12070 IRA 250 kW / 334 deg
15130 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg
15460 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg
1400-1500 on 13615 LAM 100 kW / 088 deg
15460 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg
1800-1900 on 7370 UDO 250 kW / 308 deg
9370 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg
2000-2045@on 7480 IRA 250 kW / 324 deg
9840 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg
* Mon-Fri
@ Sat/Sun til 2100

Kazakh
Additional transmissions from Sept. 1
0100-0200 on 7215 LAM 100 kW / 080 deg
9750 UNID transmitter
1300-1400 on 9465 UNID transmitter
12005 IRA 250 kW / 348 deg

Moldovan
Mon-Fri, ex Romanian
0400-0430 on 5955 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg
1600-1630 on 9850 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg
1800-1830 on 9840 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg

Russian
Additional transmissions from Aug.9 (ex VOA Russian & Special English)
1300-1400 on 11725 JBR 250 kW / 065 deg
15130 LAM 100 kW / 053 deg
15565 WOF 250 kW / 082 deg
1700-1800 on 5980 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg
5995 LAM 100 kW / 088 deg
9520 JBR 250 kW / 065 deg/LAM 100 kW / 075 deg
11805 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg
1800-1900 on 9520 JBR 250 kW / 065 deg/LAM 100 kW / 075 deg
9820 BIB 100 kW / 063 deg
11755 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg
11805 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg
1900-2000 on 9405 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg, additional freq.

Russian
Cancelled txions from Aug.9:
0700-0800 on 11700 PHL 250 kW / 021 deg
12005 LAM 100 kW / 055 deg
15535 BIB 100 kW / 065 deg
17730 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg
1000-1200 on 9585 LAM 100 kW / 055 deg
11700 PHL 250 kW / 021 deg
15130 BIB 100 kW / 065 deg
17730 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg
(Source: DX Mix News #535 via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India)

IBB frequency changes

All times UTC
NF new frequency

USA(non)
Some frequency changes for IBB:
0200-0300 NF 12025 IRA 250 kW / 348 deg, ex 9460 Radio Liberty (Uzbek)
1000-1200 NF 9585 LAM 100 kW / 055 deg, ex 21530 Radio Liberty (Russian)
1230-1330 NF 12140 TIN 250 kW / 267 deg, ex 11870 Radio Free Asia (Khmer)
1400-1500 NF 9345 PHX 050 kW / 285 deg, ex 15185 Voice of America (English)
1400-1500 NF 12005 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg, ex 11715 Radio Liberty (Uzbek)
1400-1600 NF 7430 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg, ex 7125 Voice of America (English)
1500-1600 NF 9345 IRA 250 kW / 049 deg, ex 13735 Voice of America (English)
1530-1600 NF 12110 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg, ex 11665 Voice of America (Persian)
(Source: DX Mix News #522 via Alokesh Gupta & wb, Germany)

RFE/Radio Liberty broadcast to Armenia off the air

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcasts to Armenia are off the air since Saturday midnight and its Internet site has been blocked in a blackout on independent news, imposed as part of a state of emergency that went into effect on 2 March. Under an emergency decree issued by Armenian president Robert Kocharian, media may use only government-sanctioned news for a 20-day period.
RFE/RL’s Armenian Service broadcasts to Armenia four hours daily in Armenian on FM frequencies of two local affiliates who, in compliance with the decree, took RFE/RL programmes off the air, filling the time slot with music instead. RFE/RL is the only Armenian language foreign radio in the country.
RFE/RL’s main Armenian language website, azatutyun.am has also been blocked, but still managed to register during the first day of March as many unique visitors (23,000) as it averages in an entire month. Two thirds of the visitors are from within Armenia. RFE/RL’s Armenian Service is adding website domains to get around the blockage and continue broadcasting independent news in Armenian for Internet listeners.
In the last RFE/RL broadcast Saturday night, correspondents in Yerevan reported live from the scene of protest rallies, which were forcefully dispersed by police and Interior Ministry troops. Despite media identification, a driver for RFE/RL was beaten by police. The young female correspondent he was accompanying managed to escape, running from the violence.
Another RFE/RL correspondent in the Armenian town of Gumri, covering a similar demonstration, was manhandled and threatened by Interior Ministry troops, but stood her ground. She was pushed around until the troops realized she was broadcasting live and their threats were clearly audible to listeners.
Until the Sunday curfew, protesters in Armenia had held daily rallies since the February 19 presidential election they say was rigged by the government. At least eight people are reported dead in the government’s violent crackdown on the demonstrators over the weekend.
(Source: RFE/RL/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)